Tech Law

Regulators from the European Union say Microsoft continues to lag in its compliance with the conditions of its antitrust ruling and have again set a deadline for the software giant to make changes or face additional monetary penalties. European Commissioner Neelie Kroes has given Microsoft until Nov...

Save those voice mails. That's the legal takeaway regarding new e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that will become law on December 1, 2006. The amendments make significant changes to the rules of discovery with regard to electronically stored information. For most compan...

Eight months after winning a massive cash settlement from the maker of the BlackBerry, NTP is taking aim at Palm for infringing on seven of its patents. On Monday, NTP filed suit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia, claiming that Palm's "products, services, systems and process...

Google is reportedly offering media companies millions of dollars in upfront payments if those outlets allow their content to be shared on the YouTube video sharing site that Google has agreed to buy. Reports say Google CEO Eric Schmidt is leading an effort to convince media companies such as NBC Un...

An industrial equipment maker whose domain name is Utube.com is suing video-sharing site YouTube, saying user confusion has cost it business and forced it to invest in more robust servers for its Web site. Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment said it has been forced to move its Web servers multip...

Existing copyright laws in the United Kingdom are out of date and should be updated to provide consumers with more flexibility, including the right to copy the content on DVDs and CDs to portable players, a new report argued. The Institute for Public Policy Research issued a report Sunday saying tha...

The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday presented opening arguments in federal district court in its longstanding challenge to an Internet censorship law that was signed by President Clinton in 1998 but has never been enforced. At issue in the case known as "ACLU v. Gonzales" is the Child Onlin...

A long-simmering dispute among major wireless carriers took a nasty turn Tuesday when Vivendi announced it had filed a racketeering lawsuit against rival T-Mobile. Vivendi's suit claims T-Mobile "illegally appropriated" US$2.5 billion that Vivendi invested in Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, or PTC, a Poli...

IBM said Monday it has sued Amazon.com, alleging the e-commerce retail giant has infringed on a number of its patents. IBM is seeking unspecific damages and said the suits were filed only after some four years' worth of attempts to negotiate licensing deals between the two companies. Big Blue filed...

Newly passed gaming laws have spurred an exodus of UK-based Internet companies from the lucrative United States market, with major sites selling off or shutting down their operations. Sportingbet said it agreed to sell its U.S. operations to Jazette Enterprises, an Antigua-based corporation, for US$...

Intel is facing a sweeping patent infringement suit from a far-smaller competitor. Transmeta is alleging that the chip giant infringed on 10 of its patents. Transmeta claims Intel knowingly infringed on technology protected by U.S. patents covering things such as computer architecture and power eff...

Data security giant McAfee said Wednesday it has fired its president and accepted the resignation of its CEO after an internal investigation into stock options accounting turned up problems that will require extensive restatement of past earnings. CEO George Samenuk, who also held the position of ch...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a congressional act passed to prevent future scandals of Enron proportion and is considered to be one of the most significant changes to federal securities law in the United States. The Enron scandal and other similar scandals damaged investors' confidence in the ac...

The founder of popular social networking site MySpace.com is claiming the site is worth 100 times what it sold for last year and is prodding federal agencies to probe the sale of the company to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. News Corp. purchased MySpace last year for US$580 million. Founder Brad Greens...

The California Attorney General's office late Wednesday charged former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, a second high-ranking HP executive and three others with felony fraud and conspiracy. All five face four felony counts of fraudulent wire communications, wrongful use of computer data, id...